Isbn: 9781574232530 - heart first into this ruin: the complete american sonnets (18 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: New. "Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging.potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit."-Washington Post"Terrifying and fearlessly inventive."-New York TimesThe first complete collection of Wanda Coleman's original and inventive sonnets. Long regarded as among her finest work, these one hundred poems give voice to loving passions, social outrage, and hard-earned wisdom. Wanda Coleman was a beat-up, broke Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and ruthless intelligence: "to know, i must survive myself," she wrote in "American Sonnet 7." A poet of the people, she created the experimental "American Sonnet" form and published them between 1986 and 2001. The form inspired countless others, from Terrance Hayes to Billy Collins.Drawn from life's particulars, Coleman's art is timeless and universal. In "American Sonnet 61" she writes:reaching down into my griot bagof womanish wisdom and wilysocial commentary, i come up with brickswith which to either reconstructthe past or deconstruct a head.from the infinite alphabet of afrobluesintertwinings, i cull apocalyptic visions(the details and lovers entirely real)and articulate my voyage beyond thatpoint where self disappearsThese one hundred sonnets-borne from influences as diverse as Huey P. Newton and Herman Melville, Amiri Baraka and Robert Duncan-tell Coleman's own tale, as well as the story of Black and white America. From "American Sonnet 2":towards the cruel attentions of violent opiatesas towards the fatal fickleness of artistic raintowards the locusts of social impotence itselfi see myself thrown heart first into this ruinnot for any crimebut beingThis is a collection of electrifying truth that only an artist such as Wanda Coleman can deliver.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging.potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit.Washington PostTerrifying and fearlessly inventive.New York TimesThe first complete collection of Wanda Colemans original and inventive sonnets. Long regarded as among her finest work, these one hundred poems give voice to loving passions, social outrage, and hard-earned wisdom.Wanda Coleman was a beat-up, broke Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and ruthless intelligence: to know, i must survive myself, she wrote in American Sonnet 7. A poet of the people, she created the experimental American Sonnet form and published them between 1986 and 2001. The form inspired countless others, from Terrance Hayes to Billy Collins.Drawn from lifes particulars, Colemans art is timeless and universal. In American Sonnet 61 she writes:reaching down into my griot bagof womanish wisdom and wilysocial commentary, i come up with brickswith which to either reconstructthe past or deconstruct a head.from the infinite alphabet of afrobluesintertwinings, i cull apocalyptic visions(the details and lovers entirely real)and articulate my voyage beyond thatpoint where self disappearsThese one hundred sonnetsborne from influences as diverse as Huey P. Newton and Herman Melville, Amiri Baraka and Robert Duncantell Colemans own tale, as well as the story of Black and white America. From American Sonnet 2:towards the cruel attentions of violent opiatesas towards the fatal fickleness of artistic raintowards the locusts of social impotence itselfi see myself thrown heart first into this ruinnot for any crimebut beingThis is a collection of electrifying truth that only an artist such as Wanda Coleman can deliver. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 120 pages. 7.87x5.08x0.51 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 120 pages. 7.87x5.08x0.51 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condizione: New. "Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging.potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit."-Washington Post"Terrifying and fearlessly inventive."-New York TimesThe first complete collection of Wanda Coleman's original and inventive sonnets. Long regarded as among her finest work, these one hundred poems give voice to loving passions, social outrage, and hard-earned wisdom. Wanda Coleman was a beat-up, broke Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and ruthless intelligence: "to know, i must survive myself," she wrote in "American Sonnet 7." A poet of the people, she created the experimental "American Sonnet" form and published them between 1986 and 2001. The form inspired countless others, from Terrance Hayes to Billy Collins.Drawn from life's particulars, Coleman's art is timeless and universal. In "American Sonnet 61" she writes:reaching down into my griot bagof womanish wisdom and wilysocial commentary, i come up with brickswith which to either reconstructthe past or deconstruct a head.from the infinite alphabet of afrobluesintertwinings, i cull apocalyptic visions(the details and lovers entirely real)and articulate my voyage beyond thatpoint where self disappearsThese one hundred sonnets-borne from influences as diverse as Huey P. Newton and Herman Melville, Amiri Baraka and Robert Duncan-tell Coleman's own tale, as well as the story of Black and white America. From "American Sonnet 2":towards the cruel attentions of violent opiatesas towards the fatal fickleness of artistic raintowards the locusts of social impotence itselfi see myself thrown heart first into this ruinnot for any crimebut beingThis is a collection of electrifying truth that only an artist such as Wanda Coleman can deliver.…